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Strings

This library consists of the standard five section string ensemble, deeply sampled for the ulitmate in expressive performance:

1st Violins

2nd Violins

Violas

Cellos

Basses

Recorded 24 bit / 48kHz with four mic positions (Close, Main, Rigs and Room) in a beautiful sounding hall, each section has up to 3 dynamic layers with up to 4 RR per note.

A huge range of articulations were recorded including:

Sustained Legato – (Vln I, Vln II, Vla, VC, CB)

Spiccato – (Vln I, Vln II, Vla, VC, CB)

Sordino Sustain Legato – (Vln I, Vln II, Vla, VC, CB)

Sul Tasto Legato – (Vln I, Vln II, Vla, VC, CB)

Sul Ponticello Legato – (Vln I, Vln II, Vla, VC, CB)

Sordino Spiccato – (Vln I, Vla, VC)

Harmonics – (Vln I)

True Glissando/Slide – (Vln I)

Colle – (Vln I)

Martele – (Vln I, Vln II, Vla, VC, CB)

Pizzicato and Bartok Pizz – (Vln I, Vln II, Vla, VC, CB)

Col Legno – (Vln I, Vln II, Vla, VC, CB)

“Violin Concerto” texture – (Vln I)

String SFX – (Vln I, CB)

Tremolo – (Vln II, Vla, VC, CB)

Sul Tasto Tremolo – (Vla, VC)

The entire string section was recorded in the correct orchestral seating positions, so when you load up the library, each section is correctly positioned in the stereo image, according to how the players are sat. Multiple true legato patches are included for each section, providing realistic note transitions.

Using some of the best strings players from the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Welsh National Opera, combined with a beautiful concert hall to record in and four mixable microphone perspectives to choose from creates a library that sounds polished, flexible, lush, emotional and most importantly… realistic!

Note: Requires the Full Retail version of Kontakt 4 or above (NOT compatible with free Kontakt Player).

Percussion

Surdos & Snares – 6.5GB of Epic Drums consisting of consisting of three snares and three surdo drums!

This is a very flexible percussion ensemble consisting of three snares and three surdo drums, all placed and recorded in the formation shown on the GUI, and reproduced faithfully, so you can play these drums, and they will sound in these positions.

This library also boasts an astounding 127 dynamic layers per hit/technique/key for full realism, and an extremely controllable sound and soundscape with various playing techniques including:

Soft Mallets

Sticks

Rims

Hands

Different Brushes.

Each of the drum icons on the interface can be individually muted/unloaded. Unloaded drums will appear on the keyboard interface as black, and loaded drums with active samples will be shown as blue keys. This library also comes with both close mic and main stage mic positions, to give you maximum control of the overall sound.

Consisting of eight individually tuned toms with tunings from large and deep to high, all placed and recorded in the formation shown on the GUI, and reproduced faithfully, so you can play these drums, and they will sound in these positions.

This library also boasts an astounding 127 dynamic layers per hit/technique/key for full realism, and an extremely controllable sound and soundscape with various playing techniques including:

Soft Mallets

Sticks

Sticks with newspaper on the drum

Hands

Different Brushes.

Each of the drum icons on the interface can be individually muted/unloaded. Unloaded drums will appear on the keyboard interface as black, and loaded drums with active samples will be shown as blue keys. This library also comes with both close mic and hall mic positions, to give you maximum control of the overall sound.

This is an epic library in every respect that is perfect for your next cinematic action sequence!

This library includes the following pristinely recorded percussion instruments:

Alfia

Big Floor Tom

Bodhran

Daf

Darbuka

Deep Bass Drum

Djembe

Floor Tom 2

Frame Drum

Gaia

Gong Cymbal

Indian Bells

Indian Frame Drum

Keys

Pandeiro

Riq

SFX Rims

Shakers

Sizzle Cymbal

Slammer

Snail

Tom Tom

Virus

Wreckage Drums

Each instrument is sampled with up to five round robins per note, with multiple velocity layers per note, for maximum realism and that extra human sounding quality. They also come with a variety of playing techniques including:

Mallets

Hard Sticks

Soft Sticks

… as well as trills and even extended techniques included!

This library also comes with comes with a staggering FOUR mic positions to mix between. These include close, overheads, mid, and far mic positions, for ultimate control over the sound!

Note: Requires the Full Retail version of Kontakt 4 or above (NOT compatible with free Kontakt Player)

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Ethnic / World Instruments

The Bansuri is an traditional, ancient Indian flute. Get that fantastic, well known and loved ethnic sound in your scores/soundtracks!

Featuring true legato interval playing, Aria Sounds have sampled this instrument extensively with a wide variety of expressional playing including the following articulations:

Vibrato

No Vibrato

Different types of turn

FP (loud – sudden quiet)

Accelerating Vibrato

Airy Soft vs Harder Attacks.

Due to the fact that the real Bansuri does not play chromacitally (all notes), Aria Sounds have artificially filled these notes in so you can now play it in any key for the convenience of your music. The range of the instrument is two octaves, starting from middle C going up.

The Xiao is a ancient traditional Chinese, end-blown bamboo flute, also known as the dòngxiao. Aria Sounds have sampled this instrument with true legato intervals all the way up to the octave, and, like the bansuri, have artificially filled in the notes which actually are not possible to play on the instrument physically. With this instrument, you can play it in any key, as you would any other VST instrument on the keyboard, without worrying about which notes are possible etc

There are multiple keyswitches, arranged so you can choose the first note of a phrase, and alter the expression of notes throughout a phrase as you play, allowing for an extremely human like sound. The possible expressions include the following:

Builds

From Above

Turn

FP (loud – sudden quiet)

Mordent

Normal

The expression wheel can also be used to control dynamics.

The range of the instrument is two octaves, starting from Eb above middle C working up.

Note: Libraries require the Full Retail version of Kontakt 4 or above (NOT compatible with free Kontakt Player)

A traditional, folk instrument, that is usually outside the realms of standard classical music. This was sampled in a completely different room to Aria Sounds’ other instruments. They chose a location that would compliment and retain the instrument’s warth of tone.

This instrument comes complete with the following features:

3 Dynamic levels

Up to 9 variations per note

Velocity mapped dynamics

Created with a harp recorded in a very warm and soft sounding room, this VST instrument has a much more intimite and pleasing sound. It has also been recorded in such a way that it can easily be applied to all sorts of mixes and styles of music and fit wonderfully with other instruments, reverb etc.

Note: Requires the Full Retail version of Kontakt 5 or above (NOT compatible with free Kontakt Player)

This is the one instrument where you can virtually pull out all the stops in the interface, choosing between a fantastic selection of stops, combinations and tuttis. Ranges of each stop will be shown on the keyboard when activated, pedals low, and manuals higher, plus optional octave extention controls, just like on a real organ.

This incredible instrument comes with all the stops and sounds listed below:

Pedals:

Open bass

Flute

Bourdon

Contra Bombarde

Trombone

Swell:

Clarion

Oboe

Trumpet & Waldhorn

Flute

Vox Angelica Great

Tromba

Fifteenth and Principal

Claribel Flute, Dulciana & Open Diapasons Choir

Clarinet

Flautino & Nasson Flute

Viola da Gamba & Gedeckt

Combos:

Great all out

Choir all out

Swell all out

Swell mellow comboTutti (all)

There is also the option to reduce/extend the length of the release samples, depending on whether you want that huge grand organ sound in a large space, or a cleaner more crisp and defined sound.

Aria chose to also sample some optional combinations and tutti sounds, as well as individual stops, due to the fact that the way sound interacts and moves around in a room when the stops are pulled out together, is not faithfully enough replicated when individually sampled and layered digitally.

Hybrichord – Sounds that you’d never imagine could come out of a piano… (4.3GB)

Hybrichord is Aria Sounds’ first exploration into what they can really get out of a normal piano, and the initial results are fantastic. Using various means of getting the instrument to vibrate, including wiring the instrument up, using magnets, electric current, etc, they managed to create some fantastic organic sounding sonic landscapes.

Of course, Aria have also included a variety of more well known experimental techniques, including:

Picks

Plucks

Bows

Hammers

Drumming

Screws in the strings

The user interface has controls to allow you to shape and sculpt some of the sound to your liking for use in your music and all samples were recorded as 24bit/96Khz wav files.

Note: Requires the Full Retail version of Kontakt 4 or above (NOT compatible with free Kontakt Player)

Staccato (three dynamic layers with a massive 7RR repetitions per note giving a total of 21 variations per pitch.

Flutter tongue

Rips

The Solo French Horn comes with a mixer allowing you to blend between FOUR mic positions; close mono, spot pair, stage (mid) and room (far), to create anything from a close, dry sound, to a massive, distant, cinematic soundscape.

Note: Requires the Full Retail version of Kontakt 4 or above (NOT compatible with free Kontakt Player)

When programming this vst, Aria decided to work out some sort of system that would let the instrument keep the full natural attack on every sample/note, whilst still allowing the instrument to be played to a tempo comfortably, and without feelings of latency.

The library includes the following features:

Three true dynamic levels, each with up to three round robins, giving a total of nine variations per note!

Fully functional, and controllable true sampled hammer-ons and pull-offs, as well as harmonics are also included.

All notes sampled with a different motions to simulate chord playing. Play realistic strummed chords

Change back and forth between finger picking and strumming via key switches.

Note: Requires the Full Retail version of Kontakt 5 or above (NOT compatible with free Kontakt Player)

So What Exactly Can I Do With “The Orchestral Bundle”?

“The Orchestral Bundle” by Aria Sounds covers a vast range of traditional western and non-western instrumentation, which makes it perfect for all sorts of musical styles including:

Classical Orchestral

Trailer music

Underscore

Pop

Ethnic

Chamber Music

The possible musical applications for this collection are huge making this an umissable deal at this once in a lifetime price!

Note: Requires the Full Retail version of Kontakt 4 or higher* (NOT compatible with the Free Kontakt Player)

* The Celtic Harp library requires the Full Retail version of Kontakt 5 or higher.

Note: Requires the Full Retail version of Kontakt 4 or higher* (NOT compatible with the Free Kontakt Player)

* The Celtic Harp library requires the Full Retail version of Kontakt 5 or higher.

Perfect for Classical, Underscore, Trailer, Ethnic & Pop music!

What People Think About 90% off “The Orchestral Bundle” by Aria Sounds

"London Symphonic Strings is a winner — the value is exceptional. The first chair is intimate and real sounding. The library comes with several articulations that will surely appeal to eMusicans, producers, sound designers"

Tommy Zai

Gearslutz User Review

3 reviews for 90% off “The Orchestral Bundle” by Aria Sounds

5 out of 5

Stan – January 1, 2018:

You can never have enough strings, and then, there’s the other stuff—some nice other stuff. Three items are actually included in this bundle that aren’t even listed. Since the flutes are supplied as part of the Ethnic Flute Bundle, the Bolivian Pan Flute, otherwise unavailable for separate purchase, is included. You also get the Classical Guitarist and the London Symphony Brass French Horns. This means you get everything on the Aria Sounds website except the Aurora Choir. Regarding the strings: Five string sections and four solo instruments, each with their own articulations and GUI/control, allow for great flexibility is sculpting your string sounds.